House and Garden 
early spring till late in the fall, it is the 
custom of the family to have all their meals 
served. A most charming arrangement. 
The terrace is 15 feet wide and 30 feet 
long and the floor is of bricks laid flat, her¬ 
ring-bone pattern, with occasional Moravian 
tile laid in to give 
color and interest 
to it. The brick 
is not laid in 
cement, but dry in 
sand, and when 
they were first laid 
they were sprin¬ 
kled over with 
loam, which has 
washed down and 
filled the joints, 
and now they are 
grown over with 
the delicate green 
moss which gives 
so much charm 
to old brick ter¬ 
races, and which 
usually takes 
years to attain. 
A rather unu¬ 
sual feature about 
the bouse is the 
automobile room 
at the kitchen 
end. This is a 
room large enough to take a touring car, with 
pit and other conveniences. 
The whole outside of the house is done in 
white rough-cast plaster, warmed with a 
little ochre. \ he half-timber work and all 
outside finish is stained brown and oiled, no 
paint or varnish being used anywhere. The 
bricks where they occur are very rough and 
uneven in color, several kinds being used 
all together. The chimney pots are not placed 
over every flue and, to add to the informality, 
are not alike. The kitchen windows looking 
on to the street are high, open out from 
the bottom, and are glazed with bull’s-eye 
glass so they cannot be seen through either 
way. The fence or wall is made of rough 
pine planks, nailed to cedar posts both sides 
and overlap each other one inch. The long 
horizontal lines of shadow thus obtained are 
very effective, and 
help accentuate 
the feeling of the 
long horizontal 
lines which every¬ 
where throughout 
the design have 
been insisted 
upon. 
1 he timber 
work about the 
porch is solid 
unplaned stuff, 
which has been 
given one coat of 
brown oil stain¬ 
ing. The floor of 
this porch is of 
red English quar¬ 
ry tiles, the porch 
being approached 
from the street 
over stepping- 
stones sunk in 
the grass. 
The success of 
the house is in no 
small measure due to the acceptance of the 
conditions as they were found, following the 
lines of least resistance, so that in the com¬ 
pleted whole everything seems inevitable, and 
as if it could not have been otherwise. It is 
an especially convincing example of the im¬ 
portance of this principle, and it has already 
been absorbed by its surroundings, and 
become as much a part of the landscape, and 
as harmonious with it, as the pines and oaks 
themselves. Higher praise than this, for a 
house that is as yet only a little over a year 
old, it is indeed hard to bestow. I. H. J. 
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